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Satisfied with one's self or one's actions; self-complacent.

Giving satisfaction to one's self.

To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor. As those of the one are sensated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye. R. Hooke.

Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses. [R.] Baxter.

in the internal state of the body. Perception is only a special kind of knowledge, and sensation a special kind of feeling. . . . Knowledge and feeling, perception and sensation, though always coexistent, are always in the inverse ratio of each other. Sir W. Hamilton.

Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

e held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.

An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.

Growing gradually fainter and softer; dying away; morendo.

Rendered dense or compact, as by evaporation; inspissated; thickened. [R.] The spissated juice of the poppy. Bp. Warburton.

A slight charge or accusation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A trot or trotting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution.

The operation of supersaturating, or the state of being supersaturated.

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time; temporary suspension.

Of or pertaining to the Tænioglossa.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. [R.] Bailey.

The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall.

One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.

Same as Totalizator.